English

Adjective

contractional ‎(not comparable)

1. of or related to contraction
   • 2000 September 15, Cin-Ty Lee et al., “Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Mesozoic Removal of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Sierra Nevada, California”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, DOI:10.1126/science.289.5486.1912, pages 1912-1916:

     Removal of SCLM can be accomplished by thermal erosion associated with a rising plume head, by extensional thinning of the lithosphere (and associated mantle upwelling), or by processes related to contractional tectonics [e.g., foundering of lithosphere during thickening, peeling of lithosphere, shearing away of lithosphere during shallow subduction, or erosion of lithosphere induced by flow in the mantle wedge above a subducting slab (1-5 , 7 )].

   • 1997 October 24, Philip England & Peter Molnar, “Active Deformation of Asia: From Kinematics to Dynamics”, in Science, volume 278, number 5338, DOI:10.1126/science.278.5338.647, pages 647-650:

     Bars show principal horizontal stresses; black bars correspond to contractional stress and white bars to extensional stress.